by Sally Jacobs
Soetoro, Lolo
Stanford University, Obama documents at
Star Bulletin, on Obama
Stephens, Robert F.
Stevenson, Adlai
Sunday Post (Nairobi), on Mooney’s speech at Makadara Hall
Syracuse University, Obama documents at
Thacker, Ransley
Thuku, Harry
Thurow, Lester
Times (London)
on torture of Hussein Onyango by British soldiers
on Uganda Railway
Tipis, J. K. Ole
Tith, Naranhkiri
Toutonghi, Maryurukat, Kimnyole arap
Uganda People’s Congress party
Uganda Railway
Ugoh, Sylvester E.
uhuru
The Unfolding Trail (Roberts)
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. International Cooperation Administration (ICA)
Varez, Dietrich
Victoria, Lake
Wanyee, George
Wasonga, Moses
Wasonga, Otieno O.
Weekly Review
Weya, David Owino
Williams, John R.
Wilson, Catherine
Winam Gulf
Wiswell, Ella
Yeager, Rodger
Young Kavirondo Association
Young Kikuyu Association
Zane, Pake (Andy)
Zeckhauser, Richard
Sally H. Jacobs lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, with her two children. She is a veteran reporter at the Boston Globe, where she has covered national, international, and breaking news for over two decades. She has won several journalism awards including the George Polk Award. She has specialized in political reporting and profiles including the famously reclusive Joan Kennedy, Michelle Obama, and Pat Patrick, Deval Patrick’s father. This is her first book.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reproduce photographs numbers 1, 12: Honolulu Star-Advertiser Library; 2, 5, 22, 24, 25, 27: courtesy Brendan Bannon; 3: Mooney Estate Collection; 4, 6–11: E. M. Kirk Family Estate; 13, 14: University of Hawaii Library; 15: Arthur Nachmanoff; 16: Anne Rand Library, International Longshore and Warehouse Union/Voice of the ILWU, Hawaii Local 142, Honolulu, May 1962 ; 17, 30, 32: Sally Jacobs; 18: Hulton/Deutsch Collection/CORBIS; 19: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images; 20: Buckingham Browne & Nichols School; 21: courtesy of Simmons College Archives; 23: Obama For America/Handout/Reuters/Corbis; 26: Hawa Auma; 28: AP Photo/Vincent Yu; 29: AP Photo/ Timur Emek; 31: Nation Media Group Limited.